I don't know how universal a childhood experience this is, or if it's my brain being neurospicy, but I have a very specific brand of "Movies you saw too early in life," and it is called "watching comedies and entirely missing the fucking point."

The evil that men do lives after them

This is absolutely heartbreaking.

Iowa Leaves Big Saran-Wrapped Bowl Of Potato Salad At Illinois Border After Making Too Much https://theonion.com/iowa-leaves-big-saran-wrapped-bowl-of-potato-salad-at-i-1844747809/

Can you get a COVID vaccine this year in Colorado? Here’s what to know.

i'm at the civil war i'm at the great depression i'm at the combination civil war great depression

A thing about my dad is, you know if he likes the book you got him as a birthday present if he comes up to you 4 months later and starts teaching you all the things that were in the book you got him (that you have also read).

Time to remind people about the Commercial Pattern Archive — it doesn’t have instructions and search is a bear but there’s two hundred years’ worth of clothing patterns in here including all the big names new and old: copa.apps.uri.edu

Quick note that near Byers, Colorado, there is Happy Butt Airport

The "oh you won't compromise and abandon [marginalized group]? enjoy the nazi takeover!" argument rings pretty fucking false when you consider that the horrors of a nazi takeover begin with the abandonment of marginalized groups.

I have had a wonderful time at WorldCon and met some great people, but theres always going to be someone who makes you want to beat your head against a desk.

I see fans at Worldcon are being super normal

"I'd die for the revolution" Okay but would you organize and facilitate meetings? Cook for people and take care of childcare so community members can attend? Do the dishes?

I'm so excited for @katemckean.bsky.social and her new book, Write Through It. I'll join her in conversation and open the floor to audience questions on Aug 19 in a free virtual event sponsored by Sandia Starforgers. Register: starforgers.com/kate Thanks for hosting us @marieparks.bsky.social

22. We didn't domesticate dogs. They domesticated themselves. It has been one of the greatest partnerships that any two species have ever seen, and any human who reneges on that twenty-thousand-year-old deal by mistreating dogs sucks.

#WritingCommunity If you haven’t jumped ship with google drive/docs yet, this is your sign to do so… If you have alternatives for sharing/collaborative work via cloud (that respects privacy and doesn’t work for the police state), please drop them below! www.tumblr.com/jahaliel/790... #WriteSky

Danger. Intrigue. Noir. A fortune in stolen diamonds... It's time for Monty to chew kibble and bite crime's ankles. And he's all out of kibble.

I work in an off-site storage facility for an academic library, which has archives and also "regular" books that we don't want to weed but don't have the space to keep on campus. I am constantly finding "Holy shit look at this thing, I wish I had the rest of my life to read it" items at work. 1/?

I am grateful for the small things the internet has given us, like the ability to watch a rare flower bloom that most of us would never have the chance to see otherwise. That is kinda cool, right?

What if we celebrate Colorado's 250th anniversary by giving land back to the tribes who live here? Along with other things to support their sovereignty and let them thrive. I'm fuzzy on specifics but I bet they have a list.

"...it fooled me for two weeks. I have learned my lesson and now I am using it to generate one page at a time." Fucking hell, dude.

This is exactly what the internet is for.

This. All of this thread, up and down.

Sioux Falls Pride happened today and there are some thing to love about my hometown.

Couple things I learned today: - Seniors are extremely fired up about this - "Fuck ICE" is a normie position now - People are MASSIVELY pissed off about Sen. Padilla being wrestled to the ground in LA - We all we got, we all we need

Today in Boston. Over a million people turned out. Even the drone couldn't get it all. #NoKingsDay #BostonStrong #ICEProtest

Old spirituals that go harder than you remember: "When tyrants tremble sick with fear and hear their death knells ringing, When friends rejoice both far and near, how can I keep from singing?"

Tear gas can cause long-term health consequences by making people more susceptible to contracting respiratory illnesses, including COVID. The chemical agent can also hurt people inside their homes if it seeps into residential neighborhoods. What you need to know (published 2020):

This event starts today! Denver friends, come say hello this afternoon.

You can see America as a nation built on a monstrous agenda of genocide, enslavement, apartheid. Or you can see America as a nation of people who - massacred, enslaved, disenfranchised - absolutely refused again and again to accept that agenda. I am so proud of that second nation.

As someone who's lived in Colorado since the 80s, I can tell you that the Coors family have been trash for decades. I'm always surprised this isn't more widely known.

Regular liberal people must come to understand that there is no way you can appease Nazis and especially that there is no way that you can shrink yourself so they won't hurt you. Their main goal is to hurt you.

I for one would love to hear more about ICE agents feeling shitty about themselves and/or their jobs.

The people of Los Angeles will rally on Monday, 6/9 to demand the release of everyone unjustly detained by ICE, like SEIU leader David Huerta, and an end to militaristic escalation on our communities. Join us and @aclusocal.bsky.social at 11 AM in LA to call for an end to these human rights abuses.

Let's go #LosAngeles

No exaggeration, I got through parties in my 20s because my friends told everyone that the couch in the living room was the Awkward Couch where anyone who was feeling weird could go sit and I fucking lived on that couch

Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera sparked the movement that led to the rights we have today. We owe them so much. Same with the lesbians who cared for a gay generation wiped out by AIDS. One saved my life and got me into rehab. We must remember them. Fuck the gays that don't. #Pride #LGBTQ

Signs you're old: I'm going to a concert tonight and just realized that I forgot to take preemptive ibuprofen.

anyways, here’s a how and a why explainer for alt text. the US government decided accessibility was “catering to the weak” as part of the MAHA eugenics agenda. don’t post like those fucking nazi pricks.

NO TAKE ONLY THROW

So here's a random thing that I'm going to post about here in 2025 as certain people cut the gov't's ability to do anything except murder people as quickly as possible: the United States Air Force Art Program.

Two of my coworkers are yelling about the pope being a cubs fan. It’s getting heated in here

Evergreen tweet, somehow?!

Of course, I would argue there’d be less of this if we hadn’t had a decades long cultural drive to think of education primarily as a commodity for future life advancement, rather than viewing learning as a goal in itself.

Hey, who wants something nice? So I was on tour this month, and when I was doing my event for the Princeton University Library and the Princeton Public Library, I ended up at the graveyard, where I found this gravestone:

One year ago today 🌿 May the Fourth be with you!

It's me, Pockets Georg, artificially skewing the average number of pockets per person @jasonlowrey.bsky.social

Are your characters depressed, or do they just need to re-hydrate and take a nap? (disclaimer: not making fun of CL here, who's a great writer & can help w/your character questions. But the phrasing made me think of the meme that argues that humans are basically sentient plants)

my 7-year-old just informed me that we're all made from four things: - skeletons - stardust - monkeys - love